These are the current limitations with non-enterprise drives in hardware
RAID (especially with WD drives):
a) Time Limited Error
Recoveryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Limited_Error_Recovery
:
TLER is not enabled in all WD drives manufactured after 2010 (unless you pay
for RAID Enabled
I have 4x160GB WD Desktop Drive running very well on a 3ware 9550SX
controller have been in that configuration for a few years now.
Im actually trying to sell the server they are in (with the drives included)
but it still has been working great.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Lisa Kachold
On 9/27/2011 8:53 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote:
Is anyone successfully using basic (Desktop class, aka cheap) SATA
drives with hardware controller cards?
I'm have a RAID6 with 6 x 1GB Western Digital Blacks (WDCWD1001FALS0) on
a Dell-branded PERC 6/i PCI-e card that supports up to eight devices, as
Thanks Michael,
This would only apply to drives manufactured after 2010, when WD began to
limit TLER and stop distributing the WDTLER.EXE tool.
So, I imagine there are only a few people who are finding the instability of
WD drives in hardware RAID an issue so far.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:34
Hi Stephen,
How are you?
Here's more regarding TLER settings in the WD drives:
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=226794mpage=1
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote:
I have 4x160GB WD Desktop Drive running very well on a 3ware 9550SX
controller have been in
